A still of Jack and Nina from Just Shoot Me. I forget what episode this is (just had them in my screenshots folder), but that is the actual scene.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOP
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    glorify the rich & exploitation/objectification of women for massive profits.

    I get it. I almost feel like some of that was both lampshading the practice as well as exploiting it. Every time that would come up Maya would have commentary on it.

    They also mention Trump several times.

    Yeah, that made a modern-day rewatch kind of difficult. I intentionally skipped those parts. Having re-watched several old shows somewhat recently, sadly, the orange T-bag comes up quite a bit. Just is what it is (or was what it was?).

    Also ignore my other comment. I accidentally hit submit before I had anything typed out lol.

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      Yeah, agreed on all of that.

      Usually being Maya the one commenting on the rich always felt weird or an ez writing setup bcs the points could always be dispersed as a funny, shallow bit (even tho they had her say some meaningful stuff … but ya know, it’s a comedy).

      I didn’t mean it as a huge issue, just what it stood out for me even more on the recent-ish rewatch.
      (Trumper was an issue at the time too.)

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      He’s mentioned a couple times in ‘Cheers’ mostly in the context of useless fop rich asshole, so it still works.

      Until “The Apprentice” he was pretty much synonymous with rich asshole always failing upward.